Some Girls Movie

We're accustomed to visual splendor in big films: "Lawrence of Arabia" or "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" can produce gasps, but somewhere there lurks the feeling that it's part of the experience, no more than we deserve and part of what we have come for. Production design and its companion, art direction, is, after all, what positions films most precisely in our minds. They can work on the most obvious or the most subliminal level.

We're accustomed to visual splendor in big films: "Lawrence of Arabia" or "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" can produce gasps, but somewhere there lurks the feeling that it's part of the experience, no more than we deserve and part of what we have come for. Production design and its companion, art direction, is, after all, what positions films most precisely in our minds. They can work on the most obvious or the most subliminal level.